A constant flow of data and images is alwayssurrounding us. As a part of a global digital network our electronic devices are connected toa myriad of contents which infiltrate and modulate our perception of reality, influence ourbehavior and thoughts, and in the worst cases provide data to track our digital footprints.Making the difference between noise and information, between apparently harmless visualpleasure and complex corporate economics, between data and image has become almost impossible.Quantification and measurement through technical images is essential for the biggest satellitemonitoring network on Earth, medical diagnose methods, 3D simulation videos, and technicaloperations of a lift. (Maria Morata) CN: Strong photosensitive stimuli.
To observe a total eclipse, one would need to be in the umbra, the darkest part of the shadow cast by an occluding body, the moon, over the main source of light, the sun. The history of predicting the celestial event was also the history of linear time, storm prediction, the global market. The film circuits inside a cinema-globe situated at the center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Thai and Chinese ground-stations, climate research centers, conference halls and landscapes under transformation. Through the documentary’s disorientating gaze, the film unsettles the certainty of knowing by tracing threads of strategic collaborations within a growing network of bodies gathering data on the changing Earth.… >>>
Premiere:
World Premiere
Nominated:
Goldener Key
In 2019 an iron meteorite was filed to dust, stirred into cream, and fed to 36 people. Flis’s uterus was rife with tumors soon after. Their belly swelled as a fleshy block pushed its way out at astonishing speed. From the first poke of a finger, to WebMD, to x-rays, every diagnostic tool came up short. But Flis’s telling of it is rather different to the medical notes. A documentary that veers into sci-fi, and it's not always clear which part is which.… >>>
Premiere:
German Premiere
The film reflects on the experience of not being able to see the world with depth perception. Made up of micro-events from "satisfying video" that swarm on the internet, the abstract narrative unfolds through an appropriation way by referring to trance and minimal music. It's about a desire for groundless waves, blended with today's inexorable entropy of our information societies.… >>>
As an intelligent elevator discovers the world, we get to know the invisible links between extreme heights – the mega-tall tower, speculative object and symbol for social, cultural and economic domination – and extreme depths – the deep mine, place of natural wealth extraction and colonial exploitation. As doubts, fears, and desires melt in the consciousness of the elevator, existence becomes a battle to justify itself.… >>>
Premiere:
German Premiere
- Director: Stéphanie Lagarde
